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Ross Caputi

PhD Candidate in History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Chapter Member: Boston SSN
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About Ross

Caputi is a graduate student studying the role of information operations (militarized propaganda) in the US-led occupation of Iraq. His research seeks to explain military communications with the public as a new kind of warfare. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Islah Reparations Project; a California based nonprofit organization that mobilizes resources as reparations for people living in our war zones. 

In the News

Opinion: "Journalism as a Tool of War in The Age of Jihad by Patrick Cockburn," Ross Caputi, The Massachusetts Review, 2016.
Opinion: "American Sniper?," Ross Caputi, Middle East Eye, January 10, 2015.
Opinion: "I Helped Destroy Falluja in 2004. I Won't be Complicit Again," Ross Caputi, The Guardian, January 10, 2014.
Opinion: "Fear Not the Path of Truth," Ross Caputi, Youtube, 2013.

Publications

"The Necropolitics of US Information Warfare in Fallujah" War Frenzy: Exploring the Violence of Propaganda (2017).

Provides documentation of US information operations leading up to Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah in 2004. Analyzes information operations as a constitutive element of the assault.

"Convalescence for the Wounded" American Book Review 36, no. 5 (2015): 18-19.

Reviews Nancy Sherman’s book Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers (2015).

"Howard Zinn: A Moral Example of GI Resistance" in Agitation with a Smile: The Legacies of Howard Zinn, edited by Stephen Bird, Adam Silver, and Joshua Yesnowitz (Routledge, 2013), 127-141.

Highlights Howard Zinn’s belief in collective responsibility in his moral thinking. Critics post-911 anti-war movement’s tactics and points to Zinn’s example as a model for future action.